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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi  
Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged...
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The Forgotten Queens of Islam
by Fatima Mernissi Publisher Comments Mernissi recounts the extraordinary stories of fifteen queen s and reflects on the implications for the ways in which politics is practiced in Islam today, a world in which women are largely excluded form the political domain....
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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams...
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City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance
by Haifa Zangana Publisher Comments Haifa Zangana, a former political prisoner of the Ba'ath regime, presents the first comprehensive history of women in modern Iraq through the US occupation. Positioning Iraqi women today in a long line of daring and vocal activists resisting foreign...
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Mayada, Daughter of Iraq : One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein (04 Edition)
by Jean Sasson Publisher Comments Sasson paints an intimate portrait of one woman's incredible life under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Once a privileged member of Iraqi society, Mayada's life shifted drastically when she was thrown into the notorious Baladiayat Prison....
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Publisher Comments We all have dreams — things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi?s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young...
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My War at Home
by Masuda Sultan Publisher Comments Born in Kandahar in 1978, Sultan fled to the United States at age five with her family. Raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens, Sultan saw her life change when she was married by arrangement at the young age of seventeen to a virtual stranger fourteen...
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Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
by Jan Goodwin Publisher Comments A look at the treatment of Muslim women in the Islamic world describes the increasing repressive politics that govern their personal lives and how they are confined, isolated, and even killed to protect "male honor."...
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Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing
by Nawar Al-hassan Golley Book News Annotation Scholars of English literature present studies of Arab women's recent autobiographical writing in relation to cultural hybridity, transnationalism, communal identity, and the link between the personal and the political. Their topics include...
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The Private World of Ottoman Women (Saqi Essentials)
by Godfrey Goodwin Publisher Comments Reconstructing the role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, Godfrey Goodwin brings to life the women who made their marks in a male domain. He examines the laws which governed women's lives from the harem to the humblest tasks, and...
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Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work (Cambridge Middle East Library)
by Nadia Hijab Publisher Comments Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's positions in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programs and attempts to explain why the process of social...
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Arab Women and Economic Development
by Heba Handoussa Publisher Comments The subject of women??'s participation in economic activity in the MENA region has acquired particular importance in view of the pressures of globalization, trade liberalization, the need for more women entrepreneurs, and a stronger presence in regional...
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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
by Lila Abu Lughod Publisher Comments "A truly extraordinary book--beautifully and modestly written, remarkably insightful, consistently compelling." --Edward Said, author of "Out of Place: A...
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Women in Islam and the Middle East
by Ruth Roded Publisher Comments Much of the lively and often heated debate on the role of women in Islam and Middle Eastern society is grounded in different readings of the primary sources and historical precedents. But despite the increasing importance of this debate, these key texts...
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Midnight Tales: A Woman's Journey Through the Middle East
by Rosina Fawz Al Rawi Publisher Comments "In actual fact, the only thing that matters in life is love. yet the inquisitive mind must be fed a few facts... Look at Baghdad!" commands Rosina-Fawzia al-Rawi's lively and imperious aunt Fatima, one of the characters in this delightful collection of...
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The Face Behind the Veil: Teh Extraordinary Lives of Muslim Women in America
by Donna Gehrke White Publisher Comments Ahead of its time and ideal for Women's History Month promotions, The Face Behind the Veil opens a window on a culture as diverse as it is misunderstood. Here are Muslim-American women, in all their diversity--doctors, soccer moms rebels, reformers...
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Victims and Heroines: Women, Welfare and the Egyptian State
by Iman Bibars Publisher Comments Poverty and inequality are increasing in developing countries such as Egypt--where women particularly suffer. Those in charge of female-headed households comprise a very large category of socially-deprived women--almost 30% of all Egyptian families. This...
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
Publisher Comments Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks's intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. In...
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Women in the Middle East : Past and Present (06 Edition)
by Nikki R. Keddie Publisher Comments ""Women in the Middle East" is a broad, accessible book that deals superbly well with the historical literature. It is also an intriguing experiment in combining genres from a pioneer of Middle Eastern women's history."--Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia...
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Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile (Vintage)
by Nuha Al Radi Publisher Comments In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day...
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